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7 UNITED STATES PATENT tries.

WILLIAM H. NORTHALL, OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF TVVO- THIRDS TOJ, H. POLSDORFER, H. B. POLSDORFER, F. C. POLSDORFER, AND WV. H.POLSDORFER, OF SAME PLACE.

BOTTLE-CAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 534,658, dated February26, 1895.

Application filed May 25,1894-.- Serial No. 512,451. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. NORTHALL, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city of Evansville, county of Vander burg, and State ofIndiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Caps, ofwhich the following is such a full, clear, and exact description as willenable one skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame. A

My invention consists of a cap designed to fit over the top of a bottleand hold the cork in place, and is particularly adapted for use inconnection with bottles containing aerated liquids, or liquids chargedwith gas, where there is a pressure tending to force the cork from thebottle neck.

The object of my invention is to provide a bottle cap which will be atonce efficient in service, economical in construction and easily appliedand removed.

The best embodiment of my invention at present known to meis that shownin the drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents my improved cap inposition on the neck of a bottle. Fig. 2 represents the cap with thetying band removed. Fig. 3 represents that portion of the cap shown inFig. 2, with the legs spread out intoa plane parallel to that of the topof the cap, for convenience of illustration. Fig. 4 represents thetying-band, used for the purpose of drawing in the legs of the capagainst the bottle and holding them in place.

Similar letters of reference designate similar parts in each figure.

The cap is made in two parts, a capping portion which fits over the corkand extends down along the neck of the bottle somewhat farther than thehead, A, of said neck, and a tyingband which serves to hold the lowerextremities of the capping portion tightly against the neck beneath theshoulder, B, of said head. The capping portion, which can be stamped outof a single piece of metal, consists of the plate, a, (shown in thedrawings as somewhat dished or recessed at 1)) having a plurality oflegs, 0. These legs are bent down so that the capping portion willsnugly embrace the head of the bottle neck. Each leg flares considerablyat its foot, and this foot is so cut as to form the central tongue, e,and the two pieces, (1, (1, adjacent thereto, which for convenience Iwill call wings. The tongueis raised slightly above the plane of the'wings, and the bottom portion of each wing is turned up at substantiallyright angles to the body thereof, forming the flangef. The tying band isa single strip of metal, g, of alength somewhat greater than thecircumference of the bottle neck at the point where the band acts, andhas formed on it near one end a projection or lug, '6. This tying bandis placed in the space between the planes of the wings, d, cl, and thetongue, e, in the foot of each leg, and is held in place by the saidtongue and wings and by the flauges,f, f, at the bottom of the wings.The lug, '5, lies between the flanges of the wings in one of the feetand prevents the tying band from slipping longitudinally through thatfoot. each foot and the front end of it comes under the tongue of thatfoot in which'the rear end is held by the lug, t', and being drawn inthe direction of its length until the legs are all tight against thebottle neck, that portion of the band, h, which projects beyond thefirst tongue is bent back upon itself, thereby holding the cap in place,the stiffness of the material composing the band preventing it frombecoming loose.

The drawings show the cap used in connection with a full sized cork, C,but it is obvious that it is also adapted to be used with the thin corkknown in this art as a seal. Although I prefer to form a lug, 'i, on thetying band near the end thereof, some of the advantages of my inventioncan be realized while using other means of securing this band, or whileusing other bands. The flanges, which I have described as at the bottomsof the wings, might The tying band passes through foo I claim as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a bottle-neck having a shoulder thereon and bottlecap composed of a capping portion formed of a plate having a pluralityof legs projecting therefrom, said legs having their extremities formedwith a tongue and wings, the end of said tongue or of said wings beingflanged, and a separate band adapted to lie between the planes of saidtongues and wings and to hold said legs against the bottle neck, for thepurpose specified.

2, In a bottle-cap, a capping portion consisting of a plate having aplurality of legs projecting therefrom, each leg having its foot flaringand divided into a central tongue and two wings, one on each side ofsaid tongue, said tongue and wings extending to the extremity of theleg, the lower ends of said tongue and Wings being disconnected fromeach other and the lower ends of said wings having flanges thereon, incombination with a tying band, substantially as described.

3. In a bottle cap, a capping portion consisting of a plate at having aplurality of legs 0 formed integral therewith, each leg having its lowerend flaring and divided into a central tongue 6 and two'wings d 01, eachof said wings having the flange f at its lower extremity, in combinationwith a separate tying band formed of a single piece of metal 9 andhaving the lug 2', all constructed and arranged substantially asdescribed and for the purpose specified.

WILLIAM H. NORTHALL.

Witnesses:

WM. H. GUDGEL, .A. J. MoCUToHAN.

